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> Same as airplanes, basically the same since 1960, like we fly on Super Fortresses with the bomb bays replaced with cargo holds

Nit picking, the B-29 Superfortress was a propeller driven aircraft [1]. Modern commercial planes generally have jet engines. Jet engines represent a leap forwards in aerospace engineering.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-29_Superfortress



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